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Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The most extensive Bible dictionary ever created: -With over 7 million words of authoritative content -Six volumes of approximately 1,200 pages each -More than 6,000 entries, 7,000,000 words, and nearly 1,000 contributors -Endpaper maps of the Near Eastern world keyed to text for quick location of archaeological and biblical sites -Articles on pseudepigraphic and apocryphal texts, Nag Hammadi tractates, and individual Dead Sea Scrolls -A richness of information unequaled in the history of biblical studies